175.Studies on Fairies

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In Les Fées au Moyen Age published in 1984, Laurence Harf-Lancner, a researcher of medieval French literature, picked up Morgane and Mélusine as typical fairies to classify medieval European fairy tales into two types. Morgane, a half-sister of King Arthur, is a fairy who takes a human man away with her to another realm, and Mélusine, a founder fairy of the house of Lusignan in France, transforms herself into a different creature and disappears when her husband breaks a taboo. This study will refer to the classification made by Harf-Lancner, expand to not only medieval Europe but also from the ancient to the modern period, and illuminate the transformation of fairy characters from an interdisciplinary perspective based on literature, history, mythology, ethnology (folklore), and art history.	1/4/2024 \| 31/3/2027

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In Les Fées au Moyen Age published in 1984, Laurence Harf-Lancner, a researcher of medieval French literature, picked up Morgane and Mélusine as typical fairies to classify medieval European fairy tales into two types. Morgane, a half-sister of King Arthur, is a fairy who takes a human man away with her to another realm, and Mélusine, a founder fairy of the house of Lusignan in France, transforms herself into a different creature and disappears when her husband breaks a taboo. This study will refer to the classification made by Harf-Lancner, expand to not only medieval Europe but also from the ancient to the modern period, and illuminate the transformation of fairy characters from an interdisciplinary perspective based on literature, history, mythology, ethnology (folklore), and art history.

1/4/2024

31/3/2027